{"id":2054,"date":"2015-09-02T20:45:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T00:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/?p=2054"},"modified":"2015-09-02T20:47:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T00:47:38","slug":"2015-lakeland-shots-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/02\/2015-lakeland-shots-up\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Lakeland shots up"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"lakelandbw\"<\/a>Shots from the 2015 Lakeland Classic<\/a> are up on the site.<\/p>\n

I love this little lakefront theater because of what’s outside; one of these days I’m going to get there really early and do a shoot.\u00a0 Inside the lighting is a challenge, but I had some new tools with me to help.<\/p>\n

In borderline lighting, it’s often quite easy to miss minor motion blur using the camera’s tiny viewer.\u00a0 Using a rock hammock for the tripod to hold my laptop, this time I shot tethered using a Linux program called Entangle to grab and display each shot, including histogram and data, almost as soon as I took it.<\/p>\n

Practical upshot, I was able to push the margin way<\/strong> further than I normally would, and get feedback right away as to whether I’d gone too far.\u00a0 I still had a few misses, but far fewer than normal at this venue.\u00a0 Someday maybe I’ll win the lottery and drop a couple grand on a really fast telephoto, but until then this helps me squeeze more out of what I have.<\/p>\n

The show itself was well-run and the competition was good.\u00a0 If I had one comment for the competitors, it would be this: Do all<\/strong> your homework.\u00a0 The judges go to a lot of extra time and effort to put on a series of posing and judging seminars throughout the year.\u00a0 The seminars are not expensive and what you learn is invaluable.\u00a0 They’re put on for your benefit: use them.<\/em><\/p>\n

Enjoy the shots.\u00a0 Next up: Gainesville, one of my favorite shows (and no travel).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shots from the 2015 Lakeland Classic are up on the site. I love this little lakefront theater because of what’s outside; one of these days I’m going to get there really early and do a shoot.\u00a0 Inside the lighting is a challenge, but I had some new tools with me to help. In borderline lighting, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,9,7,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bodybuilding","category-contests","category-gainesville","category-ramblings","category-schedule","category-site-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}